A LEADING private healthcare group is to plough €100 million into massive expansions at its hospitals in Cork and Galway.

A LEADING private hospital has invested €1 million in a state-of-the-art pharmacy that will give more treatment options to cancer patients.

CONSULTANT obstetricians say they will be forced to give up their practice if the row between the State and a British firm over insurance cover continues.

THE manager of the country's busiest private maternity hospital has warned that forcing private obstetricians out of practice due to unaffordable insurance would put an unbearable strain on public hospitals.